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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual and experimental. Last week replacing Your Show of Shows with Saturday Night Revue, NBC stuck to the familiar variety format as a showcase for some likable new talent. Starring Composer Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael and directed by Sid Miller (who often plays literate TV comedy with Donald O'Connor), the Revue introduced a Martha Raye-type comedienne named Helen Halpin, rubber-faced Comic Jackie Kannon ( I studied dramatics under Senator McCarthy"), and, best of the lot, George Gobel, who deadpanned a funny monologue about a lost bowling ball. Some other changes this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Summer Shift | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Willard L. Sperry, retiring dean of the Divinity School, opened the program with a prayer, and Donald O. Stewart delivered the class oration. Charles E. Neuhauser gave the class poem, and F. James O'Neil delivered the Ivy Oration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stewart, Neuhauser, O'Neil Speak In Seniors' Class Day Ceremonies | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

After the class is seated, Williard L. Sperry, retiring Dean of the Divinity School, will open the program with a prayer. Following that, Donald O. Stewart will deliver the class oration. Charles E. Neuhauser will read the class poem, and F James O'Neil will give the Ivy Oration, traditionally a humorous speech about the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Class Day Exercises Begin at 3 p.m. in Yard | 6/9/1953 | See Source »

...Segel, Mathematics; Daniel W. Seitz, Classics and History; Donald L. Shapiro, Biology; Clayton L. Sommers, Economics; Marshall S. Spiller, Fine Arts; Stephen Stamatopulos, Government; Mark E. Stephenson, Jr., Applied Science; Robert H. Stewart, Government; Lawrence M. Stone, Economics; George L. Sutton, Government; Louis Tiger, Jr., Physics; James A. Urdan, Social Relations; Richard J. Wagman, Biology; Sylvan R. Weiner, History and Literature; Peter T. Westegaard, Music; Robert P. Wolff, Philosophy; Robert A. Woods, History; Irving Yoskowitz, English; Eugene Zack, Biochemical Sciences; Arnold J. Zurcher, Jr., Government...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Elmer Davis Details Threats To Survival of Civilization | 6/9/1953 | See Source »

...commonplace lampoon of poor singers and non-sequitur lyrics. But There's a New Sound is an unrelenting and fairly unforgettable satire on such gimmicks as echo chambers and dog barks (as in Doggie in the Window). There's a New Sound depends on a Donald Ducklike cackle and a jigging country beat. Its chorus gets repeated five times (each time a tone higher) and its melody uses just two notes, "for simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fair Warning | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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